1. Installed GenX to the default location which should be Program Files/DAZ 3D/DazStudio4

2. Launch D/S.

3. Go to HELP>About Installed Plugins.

4. Scroll down until you see Genesis Generation X. Beside it, there should be a long bar where you have to enter a serial code.

5. Go to your "My Account" on the DAZ website. Locate "My Serial Numbers". Go to where you should have a Serial Number for GenX. Copy it with your mouse.

6. Go back to Daz Studio and enter your serial number in the empty box and click on the symbol next to it.

7. If it asks for verification at this point or when you try to use GenX, enter your Rendro username/E-mail and the Order number that you ordered Gen4.

8. Your Rendro order number for Gen4 can easily be found on Rendro. If you don't know how, sign in and go to "Members>My Account" then scroll down until you see "Search Perchases". Enter Gen4 and click Go/Search. You should find it very easily. The number beside it is your order number. Enter that in the required field in D/S. Click OK.

...blecch, if you have to go through a lot of hoops to get things working right, then it's not worth the price.

Not really a lot of hoops for me. Once I got the help I needed and figured out what needed to be done, it was rather quick. Now that it's set up now, I don't have to ever do it again. Now I can transfer all my characters again. So, for me it's well worth the price. Every penny. Besides, I bought the upgrade. The upgrade is about half the price as the regular program. ;)

...so for those who already had GenerationX, it actually involves additional cost to upgrade it for use it with 4.5 rather than just a reset of the original DL?

Oh hell no. He used to sell Gen4 at Rendo, then he moved here to sell his improved version.
The update for 4.5 was made available by account reset. (I think the 4.0 and 4.5 versions are in the same download, lemme check).

Man, no wonder you thought this was bad.

edit: Yep, 4.0 and 4.5 versions in each download. No muss, no fuss.

They don't charge for updated plugins. Just upgraded ones (5.x will be an upgrade).

No, no! For you, all you have to do is reset your download, re-download it and that's it. It "should" install in the same location when you installed GenX the first time. So, you have an easier time than I did. At least you should. :)

The additional cost only applies to those of us who had Gen4 that want to upgrade to GenX.

...and it will be a long time unless I get an increase in the pay envelope. With basic RL costs constantly going up and up while income isn't, it is becoming a lot harder to justify investing all over again in Gen5 to make it as useful as what I already have.

Autofit will not be a viable solution to having to purchase new Gen5 clothing content until the footwear/glove fit and texture/skirt mesh distortion issues are resolved.

Also, Vicky5, Steph5, Mike5 (and most likely K5 when released) all cost significantly more for the base figure than their Gen4 counterparts. It is just the nature for prices on 3D figures/content to increase as well as the PAs have RL expenses to deal with as well.

...and it will be a long time unless I get an increase in the pay envelope. With basic RL costs constantly going up and up while income isn't, it is becoming a lot harder to justify investing all over again in Gen5 to make it as useful as what I already have.

Man, I hear you, the inflation is ruinous.

Autofit will not be a viable solution to having to purchase new Gen5 clothing content until the footwear/glove fit

That's why we've got the Transfer Utility. A fair fraction of old footwear can be converted with insignificant flaws.
As long as I don't do any closeup of people's shod feet, I'll be fine.

For gloves, I don't know, because I haven't run across any need for them, yet.

and texture/skirt mesh distortion issues are resolved.

Texture distortion can be a nuisance, at times, but there's always something, isn't there?

Every version & generation has to give us some jacked up thing.

Also, Vicky5, Steph5, Mike5 (and most likely K5 when released) all cost significantly more for the base figure than their Gen4 counterparts. It is just the nature for prices on 3D figures/content to increase as well as the PAs have RL expenses to deal with as well.

I could give two plops about V5, or M5. They have characters based on them too, and I couldn't care less.

...OK in going though all the DL folders (with a lot of content still waiting to be installed) I have I found somehow I actually ended up getting GenerationX. When, I'm not sure, but must have been during one of the recent sales. Upgraded and installed. Then had a "doh" moment as I forgot I had to register the SN.

OK so it now works, sort of. Read the PDF manual and can't quite figure out how to load a "legacy" character and morphs in forusewith Genesis. In the PDF it mentions loading a Gen4/Gen3 character from the Studio4 Library. All my older figure/morph is in my S3A runtime. Do I need to reinstall everything to 4.5 to access it with G-X?

...OK in going though all the DL folders (with a lot of content still waiting to be installed) I have I found somehow I actually ended up getting GenerationX. When, I'm not sure, but must have been during one of the recent sales.

Whoa!

Upgraded and installed. Then had a "doh" moment as I forgot I had to register the SN.
OK so it now works, sort of. Read the PDF manual and can't quite figure out how to load a "legacy" character and morphs in forusewith Genesis. In the PDF it mentions loading a Gen4/Gen3 character from the Studio4 Library. All my older figure/morph is in my S3A runtime. Do I need to reinstall everything to 4.5 to access it with G-X?

You can save some time by creating template CR2's, loaded with Morphs++, and whatever other dials a character might call for, and saving them, as CR2s, into a runtime.

Of course, you'll need the Genesis shape that the character requires (V4, V3...), to get the original look.

I'm still puttering, because I don't haven't had much hobby time lately (and so many newer things to play with). I've only saved easy ones. I haven't got as far as issues such as S4 from V4, and the possible wrinkles in saving some kinds of scaling... Last I heard, if it's the wrong kind of source, for saving scaling, you can scale Genesis manually, a part at a time, and save that.

Shouldn't be hard to find people who can answer that stuff, tho'.

edit: World's most leisurely ninja-ing. Had to do something else, mid-post.

...well looked into that that and apparently broke something for when I now try to load any of the characters I built on Genesis I get a a bunch of errors (Screenshot 1) and the figure loads only in solid bounding box mode.

The second screenshot is the display of the directories mapped. I may have accidentally deleted something important but don't remember what it was. Really not good at this kind of thing.

Wow, mapped folders and missing files aren't my strong suits, but I will ponder. Hopefully, someone will come in with a solve, if I don't hit it.

Is everything updated?

What happens when you search for those files, with Windows search, or, better, Everything?

Did you install the DSON importer's files, or anything? Maybe they moved some things?
(Unlikely, but I think installers moved things, a while back, and that's what caused Duplicate-ID issues, which they came up with answers for).

I assume you GenX'd with 4.5. But if you GenX'd first, then went to 4.5 later, things might've possibly got moved.

By the way, Everything is my acid-test, to see if I've bought something before. For example "Magna Hart exe" (with spaces) will turn up the installer, regardless of other crap in the filename. It takes a few minutes, on the first startup, then watches for changes, and works instantly.

Edit: I would think your C:\Documents and Settings\[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]\My Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\, for DAZ Studio Format, should be enough for Studio to find all the dsf's.

GenX's dsf's are a mix of plain text and binary. If there'd been a change of folders, it might be possible to edit the source folder - once it's backed up, of course. The only source directory, that I see is "parent" : "/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Genesis.dsf#Genesis"

..."purchased" but haven't even DL'd DSON yet as it will go on the new system.

The last thing I installed was the latest update of GenerationX.

OK I went checked for that path however instead of ending in a folder titled "\Base" there is the following:

\DAZ3D
---\Aiko3
---\Evolution
---\Hiro3
---\Victoria 5

There is none titled "\Steph4" either even though I installed her body shape for Genesis.

This looks bad and I feel like something was hosed when I was moving things around in the Content Management pane. I even tried mapping anything with the label "Daz" in it figuring I'd end up hitting the right one, but still getting the same results. It's almost as if something got deleted from the drive itself rather than just from the map list.

[a little miffed because Magento logged me out of the forums when I went off line for a bit and only gives me the store login (with that lovely timeout feature) when I try to log back in. I thought this was fixed a month or so ago]

..anyway, may have discovered what happened to my Genesis.

When I attempted to reinstall the Genesis Essentials this is the default path it gave me:

This is what I probably deleted from the mapped directories (and probably why I was having issues with the GenerationX Plugin) as I saw it went to a local desktop folder rather than the 4.5 default content location. Not sure how the installer picked this path as the default for I didn't tick the custom install box to change anything.